The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 9
His majesty approved of the proposal, and I took them up one by one, with the proper officers to exercise them.
Who acts: majesty, I · What happens: approve, take up, exercise · To what, where: sticks
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approved | nsubj |
| 3 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 proposal | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 proposal | det |
| 6 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approved | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 officers | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 officers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 officers | det |
| 19 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 officers | amod |
| 20 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 exercise | mark |
| 22 | exercise | exercise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 exercise | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | behavior's majesty | of the proposal | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | I | sticks = stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme one=Destination | ||||
| 3 | exercise | to-infinitive | I not said here | sticks = stick | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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